<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:8pt">Uninstalling lightdm and reinstalling KDM again fixed the issue:<br><br>1. reset /etc/X11/default-display-manager to point to KDM<br>2. then the following commands:<br><br># apt-get remove lightdm<br># apt-get purge lightdm<br># apt-get install kdm<br><br>Still have the other issue, but at least it works again.<br><br>Ben<br>. <br><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday, April 21, 2014 5:20 PM, BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com> wrote:<br>
</font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none"><div class="yqt6418465221" id="yqtfd77438"><br clear="none">On Monday, April 21, 2014 12:32 PM, Nils Kassube <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kassube@gmx.net" href="mailto:kassube@gmx.net">kassube@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> BRM wrote:<br clear="none">> > I upgraded my AMD64 3200 based desktop last night from 13.10 to 14.04<br clear="none">> > and have run into a couple issues - one of which is a show stopper.<br clear="none">> > 2. When bototing up, it never gets past plymouthd. The system just<br clear="none">> > sits there. If I press ESCape, then I can see the list of<br clear="none">> > "OK"/*failed"; there's a couple things that fail (don't have the<br clear="none">> > exact list off hand) but I can see that it keeps trying to come up,<br clear="none">> > but after each service is started, it is almost immediately stopped;<br
clear="none">> > sometimes a few things get up before things are shutoff; but it never<br clear="none">> > really finishes booting.<br clear="none">> > <br clear="none">> > As I noted earlier, I can go to a console (CTRL+ALT+F1) and I have<br clear="none">> > access without an issue.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I have seen this with an upgrade 12.04 -> 14.04 [1]. If you had kdm but <br clear="none">> not lightdm installed before the upgrade, this may be the same issue. <br clear="none">> The problem was that kdm is replaced by lightdm during the upgrade. <br clear="none">> However I had a stale config file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. Removing <br clear="none">> that config file solved the issue and lightdm started.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Nils<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> [1] <<a shape="rect" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1297936"
target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1297936</a></div>><br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none">That's probably what it is. I prefer KDM of lightdm...can't figure out why they<br clear="none">are forcing a switch. I uninstalled lightdm on 13.10...I'll give that a try tonight.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Ben<div class="yqt6418465221" id="yqtfd70275"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>